Mahfouz then worked as a journalist at er-Risala, and contributed to el-Hilal and Al-Ahram.

Mahfouz paid a visit to the Health Department Director General and demanded to be sent to Mousha, a village in Upper Egypt near Assiut which was particularly hard-hit by the deadly disease and where a doctor had just succumbed to the same disease he had been sent to fight.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mahfouz believed in freedom of expression and although he did not personally agree with Rushdie's work, he did not believe that there should be a fatwa condemning him to death for it.

In 1989, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie and his publishers to be killed, Mahfouz called Khomeini a terrorist.

Shortly after Mahfouz joined 80 other intellectuals in declaring that " no blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer.

After the incident Mahfouz was unable to write for more than a few minutes a day and consequently produced fewer and fewer works.

Mahfouz and Mounir would spend most of their time in Mounir's office ; Mahfouz used Mounir's library as a reference for most of his books.

Mahfouz ceased to write for some years after finishing the trilogy.

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Nasser awarding Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz the First Class Order of Merit and the State Prize of Distinction for Science, 1960

In 2007, controversy arose over CUP's decision to destroy all remaining copies of its 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, by Burr and Collins, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz.

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz has most if not all of his works translated after he won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He keeps searching for meaning of his life until the last scene that seems an imposed one by Mahfouz to give some air of hope.

Baird won a contested nomination battle for Ottawa West — Nepean Conservative nomination on May 5, 2005, defeating challengers Ed Mahfouz, Margret Kopala and Ade Olumide.

This theme of search for meaning or way of existence is comparable to other novels by Mahfouz, notably Children of Gebelawi ( 1959 ), The Beggar ( 1965 ), Heart of the Night ( 1975 ) and The Harafish ( 1977 ).

It was translated into English by the American University in Cairo Press in 2000, after winning the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

Received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for Memory of the Flesh in 1998.

Category: Recipients of Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

The most recent award, in 2011, was given to five representatives of the Arab Spring — Asmaa Mahfouz, Ahmed al-Senussi, Razan Zaitouneh, Ali Farzat, and Mohamed Bouazizi — for their contributions to " historic changes in the Arab world ".

Egyptian Nobel Prize for Literature-winner Naguib Mahfouz published a short story in 1938 about Userkaf entitled Afw al-malik Usirkaf: uqsusa misriya.

The Caine prize is supported by four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature acting as patrons: Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J. M. Coetzee.

Mahfouz reorganised the School of nursing and midwifery and taught general nursing and midwifery to its pupils for over thirty years.

* 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2006 )

Born to a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter of Cairo, Mahfouz was named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz ( 1882 – 1974 ), the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him.

Mahfouz was the seventh and the youngest child in a family that had five boys and two girls.

His father, whom Mahfouz described as having been " old-fashioned ", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz eventually followed in his footsteps.

In his early years, Mahfouz read extensively and was influenced by Hafiz Najib, Taha Husayn and Salama Moussa.

The Mahfouz family were devout Muslims and Mahfouz had a strictly Islamic upbringing.

The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 had a strong effect on Mahfouz, although he was at the time only seven years old.

After completing his secondary education, Mahfouz entered King Fouad I University ( now the University of Cairo ), where he studied philosophy, graduating in 1934.

Mahfouz left academia and joined the Egyptian civil service, in which he continued till 1972.

Mahfouz remained a bachelor until the age of 43.

Mahfouz did not shrink from controversy outside of his work.

Death threats against Mahfouz followed, including one from the " blind sheikh ," Egyptian theologian Omar Abdul-Rahman.

Mahfouz was given police protection, but in 1994 Islamic extremists almost succeeded in assassinating the 82-year-old novelist by stabbing him in the neck outside his Cairo home.

After the threats, Mahfouz stayed in Cairo with his lawyer Nabil Mounir Habib.

He served in this post for six years during which he was able to consolidate the three service departments of the military branch into a single Ministry of Defence.

During the Second World War Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information, then joined the army, serving as a Corporal cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals.

As early as 1938, 32 % of the offices in the Foreign Ministry were held by men who previously served in the Dienststelle.

Although the drawings were bought by the British Ministry of Information, his application was turned down and he was conscripted in the Army, where he served first with the Royal Artillery, then with the Royal Engineers.

During the Continuation War, Kekkonen served as director of the Karelian Evacuees ' Welfare Centre from 1940 to 1943 and as the Ministry of Finance's commissioner for coordination from 1943 to 1945, tasked with rationalising public administration.

Under Emperor An, Zhang also served as Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages under the Ministry of Guards, in charge of the reception of memorials ( containing policy and administrative suggestions ) submitted to the throne as well as nominees for official appointments.

Durkheim had much influence over the new generation of teachers ; around that time he also served as an advisor to the Ministry of Education.

After the Communists seized power in Romania in 1947, he headed the Ministry of Agriculture, then served as Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, becoming a Major General.

After Labor won the 1972 election, Gorton served in the Shadow Ministry of Billy Snedden until after the 1974 election, when he was dropped.

His great-grandfather's brother Carl Bildt served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Cabinet-Secretary ( Under secretary of state of foreign affairs, in Swedish kabinettssekreterare ) and was a renowned diplomat and member of the Swedish Academy.

Minh was born on 16 February 1916 in Mỹ Tho Province in the Mekong Delta, the son of a wealthy landowner who served in a prominent position in the Finance Ministry of the French colonial administration.

Initially, the eastern building served as the French Naval Ministry.

He served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960.

Zweig, although patriotic, refused to pick up a rifle ; instead, he served in the Archives of the Ministry of War, and soon acquired a pacifist stand like his friend Romain Rolland, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915.

The town is served by four religious congregations, Laughlin Community Church, St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Living Christ Lutheran Church and Living Water Outreach Ministry.

After Pitt's death in January 1806, Fox served briefly as Foreign Secretary in the ' Ministry of All the Talents ' of William Grenville, before he died on 13 September 1806, aged fifty-seven.

From 1975 to 1979, he served as the deputy chief engineer of a company run by the Pipeline Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry and as the director of Industrial Economics Institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

When the finance ministry was set up in Yamato Court, Hata no Otsuchichi ( 秦大津父 ) became Tomo no miyatsuko ( the chief of various departments of the Yamato Court ) and was appointed Okura no jo ( Ministry of the Treasury ), and the heads of family seem to have served as financial officials of the Yamato Court.

In 1876, at the age of twenty-seven, Kiyoura joined the Ministry of Justice, and served as a prosecutor and helping draft Japan ’ s first modern Criminal procedures laws.

Subsequently he served as director of the Banking Bureau in the Finance Ministry.

After graduation, Hirota entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a career diplomat, and served in a number of overseas posts.

Before and during World War II, he served as a bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry and as Chief Cabinet Secretary.

He then served as the Vice Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( August, 1979 to March, 1980 ) and as the Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults ( August, 1979 to July, 1981 ).